"Jeremy Corbyn will impose a three-line whip on MPs to vote in favour of triggering Article 50 when the bill comes before parliament next week, after a tense shadow cabinet meeting, the Guardian understands.

Shadow cabinet ministers are understood to have opposed the move, with others argue for a free vote on the issue given the difference of opinion in the party. Senior figures warned there may be resignations from the front bench.

One source suggested that shadow business secretary Clive Lewis said he would vote against the bill, and could even campaign against it. It is not clear if he would be able to remain a member of the shadow cabinet, and the Guardian has not managed to contact Lewis since the meeting"

It never rains but........

I like Clive Lewis and I thought the 3 line whip thing had been debunked as not the truth.

Why would you offer sympathies to someone who nearly died? "I'm so sorry you are still alive"

An apology isn't the same as sympathy. It means you feel for somebody. Why not have sympathy for someone who was violently assaulted and almost killed doing his public duty? And why would you offer sympathy to someone who was dead? Under those circumstances you offer it family and loved ones.

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North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds later described Mr Corbyn's gaffe as "one of the worst displays of crass ignorance that could be imagined".

He hasn't got much imagination then, I suppose he is a religious bigot and right wing extremist, that can't help.

Sending condolences to the family you wrongly heard had died, terrible stuff.

Fake news I suppose so much easier to play the man rather than the ball.

Having said that he is wrong to whip the article 50 vote, that should be left to individual MPs, many represent constituencies that voted firmly to remain.

I'd ignore him and vote with my constituents and that would undermine his tenuous authority in the PLP, they often seem to do what they think is ideologically right rather than what is politically expedient.

North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds later described Mr Corbyn's gaffe as "one of the worst displays of crass ignorance that could be imagined".

He hasn't got much imagination then, I suppose he is a religious bigot and right wing extremist, that can't help.

Sending condolences to the family you wrongly heard had died, terrible stuff.

Fake news I suppose so much easier to play the man rather than the ball.

Having said that he is wrong to whip the article 50 vote, that should be left to individual MPs, many represent constituencies that voted firmly to remain.

I'd ignore him and vote with my constituents and that would undermine his tenuous authority in the PLP, they often seem to do what they think is ideologically right rather than what is politically expedient.

Why would you offer sympathies to someone who nearly died? "I'm so sorry you are still alive"

An apology isn't the same as sympathy. It means you feel for somebody. Why not have sympathy for someone who was violently assaulted and almost killed doing his public duty? And why would you offer sympathy to someone who was dead? Under those circumstances you offer it family and loved ones.

It was a joke - but I would also say 90% of the time when a politician is expressing their sympathies it is when people have died. If it is about people who are injured, the standard phrasing is "my thoughts (or prayers - likely not relevant in this case) are with them".

He has more than a point - in fact he has the tense wrong. Britain is not 'becoming', Britain has been little more than a vassal state since at least Mr Eden's premiership. Every UK PM genuflects toward the American president. Mrs May is just the latest in a long line of PMs who will 'be with you whatever'.

Moleskin wrote:He has more than a point - in fact he has the tense wrong. Britain is not 'becoming', Britain has been little more than a vassal state since at least Mr Eden's premiership. Every UK PM genuflects toward the American president. Mrs May is just the latest in a long line of PMs who will 'be with you whatever'.

While I accept the general point, and push it back to the imposition of the Marshall Plan, tbf, Wilson, and indeed Heath, did not allow us to get drawn into the Vitenam War.

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